Poll results.

[saxikath]

So I've gone through your responses to my poll so far.

General observations:

• There was less variation in men's names than women's. I believe this tends to be true of names in general, but there was certainly more agreement among men's names than women's in this poll.
  
• Italian male names showed the least variation (11 different names, of which one received 6 votes), followed by Scottish male names (12 different names, of which one received 8 votes -- the most votes for any one name in any group) and German male names (12 different names, one of which received 6 votes). German women showed the most (19 different names, of which none received more than two votes). French and Italian women each had 17 different names.
  
• I suspect my friends' perceptions of names have been influenced by Highlander, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Nintendo. Though of course I can't prove that. :)
  

(Note: I combined entries in which the only difference was spelling (Giulietta versus Julietta, for instance), but left separate entries that were different forms of the same name (Maggie versus Margaret).)

Scottish men:
8 votes: Angus
3 votes: Ian
2 votes: Jamie
1 each: Conner, Duncan, Fergus, Hamish, Harry, Jock, Malcolm, Sean, Tom

Scottish women:
5 votes: Fiona
4 votes: Mary
2 votes: Heather
1 each: Aoife, Bonnie, Bridey, Fran, Jenny, Maeve, Maggie, Margaret, Sheena, Siobhan, no answer

French men:
6.5 votes: Pierre
5 votes: Jacques/Jaques
2 votes: Francois
1.5 votes: Jean
1 each: Etienne, Froo-Froo Fromage, Jean-Claude, Maurice, Pepe, Philippe, Vincent

French women:
5 votes: Marie
2 votes: Renee
1 each: Brigitte, Claire, Delphine, Francesca, Francoise, Jeanne, Liane, Louise, Madeleine, Margot, Martine, Reinette, Signy, Therese, Yvette

Italian men:
6 votes: Giuseppe/Giuseppi/Guiseppe
4 votes: Mario
2 each: Antionio, Giovanni, Guido
1 each: Adam, Giorgio, Luigi, Marco, Ramon, Vito

Italian women:
3 votes: Maria
2 each: Giulietta/Julietta, Catarina/Katarina, Lucia
1 each: Antonia, Beatrice, Bianca, Carmelita, Gianetta, Grace, Lucrezia, Mama, Michaela, Paola, Severina, Sophia, Viola

German men:
6 votes: Hans
2 each: Fritz, Heinrich, Klaus, Otto, Rolf
1 each: Andreas, Franz, Hank, Hans-Peter, Kai, Wilhelm

German women:
2 each: Gretchen, Helga, Hilde
1 each: Adelaide, Constanza, Elisabeth, Eva, Gisele, Greta, Inge, Irene, Katrine, Lisl, Lotte, Magda, Marta, Martina, Sigi, Ursula



This exercise in random polling brought to you by the weird place that is Kath's brain.

Comments

[ceo]

I'm surprised at the nonappearance of Jean-Luc among French men.

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

But, ceo, Jean-Luc was played by a Scot. ;)

[cycon.livejournal.com]

Brought to you by the weird place that is someone else's brain: "Siobhan" is Irish, not Scottish.

[saxikath]

I wasn't requesting accuracy, just first impressions. I mean, "Grace" isn't Italian, and "Francesca" is Italian, not French. But I was curious as to what came to people's minds.

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

Looking at this list I realize that I failed to put my mother's name, Yvette, which is very French, or my father's name, Gordon, which is pretty Scottish. I guess it's because they're not French or Scottish, though my mother's father didn't know that when my mother first mentioned that she was dating someone named "Gordon."

[bourbon-cowboy.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of surprised that I wasn't the only "Heinrich" fan.